A new report published today by the Higher Education Policy Institute and the Russell Group’s Pro-Vice-Chancellors / Deans of Arts and Humanities Network shows Humanities subjects are playing a major role in education and the workplace.
The report also highlights the more recent ways that Arts and Humanities are taught and represented – working in a much more interdisciplinary way with the Natural Sciences and other STEM disciplines, allowing students to prepare for an increasingly complex and uncertain world.
Examples are provided where Humanities have supported different societal challenges including during the pandemic, supporting cultures and communities to withstand the pressures of lockdown, helping society to make sense of and narrate the experience of the pandemic, explain the benefits of vaccination and, crucially, shape the process of recovery.
The areas of mental health, addressing loneliness of young people, big issues of technology and ensuring accuracy in media and communications are also given as examples of where the insights and methodologies of the Humanities have deepened and enhanced understanding and improved interventions.
